How people get ahead
We're often told that success is only the result of hard work. But it often seems that those who succeeded had an unfair advantage over their competitors.
We all have our own set of unfair advantages we can use to succeed. The book, The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed starts with the premise that life is fundamentally unfair. When we're looking at successful people, they did not only work hard but there were also other things that played a role, such as luck, circumstances, privilege, etc.
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